Investigating the Past Life with Safari Toob Fossils

Friday, June 17, 2016

We love our Safari Toob! I think every ‘Mom’schooler should have at least a set or two of these toobs. They are fabulous learning materials and my kids love them!

Anyway, Mavi is officially joining Vito’s weekly themed activities as he’s almost done with school. He misses “Mom” school and urged me to let him join with the activities. So while Vito is all about play and learn, I’m giving Mavi some serious investigative work like research, more readings, and selective hands-on activities.

So what more can a 7 year old do with fossils? A lot actually! In this lesson period, we talked about each fossil figure that we have and compared it to the present life counterpart. As you can see, I've set this up in our shelf for both of the boys to explore.

While Vito was napping, Mavi and and I read the book and talked about the fossils in the tray. Here’s what we have achieved in a matter of 30 minutes:

Recorded the characteristics of each fossil and identified if it’s present day counterpart is extinct or not.

Identified the part that has been preserved (skull, leg, tooth, etc.)

Reviewed where these fossils have been found or discovered.

As you can see, I created cards from the information included in the Ancient Fossils toob and made Mavi match them to the figures. Unfortunately I don't have permission to redistribute the information cards. I am so impressed on how he’s able to identify all of them based on the description that is written in the cards. He even discussed to me a few more facts about the ammonites and the dinosaur fossils!

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